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. lindrical from with the usual sloping upper it may be made of any shape and from any CARL P.` EICHLER, OF CLEVELAND, OI-IIO.

FLOUR-SIFTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of 4Letters Patent No. 513,489, dated January 30, 1894.

Application filed April 26, 1893.

.To all whom t may concern:

Be itkn own that I, CARL P. EIoHLnR, a citizen of theUnited States,and aresident-of Cleveland, county of Oayahoga, and State of Ohio, have invented certain newand usefulImprovements in Flour-Sitters, of which the following 1s a specification, the principle of the invention being herein explained and the best inode in which I have contemplated applylng that principle, so as to distinguish it from other inventions.

The annexed drawings and the following description are set forth in detail, one mechanical form embodying the invention; such de tail construction being but one of various mechanical forms in which the principle of the invention may be used.

In said annexed drawings-Figure I represents an axial section of my improved iiour sifter, and Fig. II, a top plan view.

The body A, of the sifter is of the usual cyedge, to give it scoop form, and with the usual screen bottom A', secured in any suitable or desired manner. The handle bail B, is preferably formed from a strip of metal, and diverges from the body at its lower end.

A stirrer, C, rests upon the bottom of the sifter, and is preferably formed from a piece of wire bentinto a serpentine shape, although suitable materiaL-it being only desirable to have it of such a shape, that it will come in contact with substantially the entire screen surface when diametrically reciprocated across the latter. The form of stirrer illustrated in the drawings, has the ends of the wire projecting through and sliding in the sides of the body, at diametrically opposite points; one guide rod, c, having a head, c',which limits the back stroke of the stirrer, and the other guide rod, c2, having an eye,c3, at its end,-said rod and eye projecting into the space ofthe handle, near its lowerand wider end. `A movable handle, D, is movably supported in the upper andnarrow end of the rigid handle bail, and has its lower end movably connected to the guide rod of the stirrer, so that the latter may be reciprocated by os- Serial No. 471,908. (No model.)

cillating the movable handle. A Wire, D', is illustrated in the drawings as passed through the handle, with its lower end, d, projecting through the eye of the stirrer and guided in a slot, b, in the lower end of the handle bail. Above the movable handle, the Wire is formed into a spring coil, d', and is thereupon passed out through the handle bail, down over the outside of the same, and again in through the handle bail; so that the movable handle is thus yieldingly supported to oscillate, and in a very simple manner, without any extraneous fastening.

When the handle bail is grasped by the hand, the fingers will embrace the movable handle, and, by alternately compressing and releasing the hand, the stirrer may be reciprocated. This iiour sifter is, consequently, a one-handiiour sitter which is a very desirable article, as it leaves the other hand at liberty for other work.

Other modes of applying the principle of my invention may be employed forthe mode herein explained. Change may thereforebe made as regards the mechanism thus dis-` closed, provided the principles of construction set forth respectively in the following claims are employed.

I therefore particularly point out and distinctly claim as my inventionl. The combination with a floursift-er body havinga rigid handle bail,of a reciprocating stirrer upon the screen bottom of said body, and a handle inovably supported within said handle bail so as to be clasped together with the handle portion of the saine, and connected to the reciprocating stirrer, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination with a flour sifter body having a rigid handle bail, of a reciprocating stirrer upon the screen bottom of said body, and a handle yieldingly supported at its upper end in the upper end of the handle bail to be clasped together with the handle portion of the saine, and movably connected at its lower end to the stirrer, substantially as set forth. i

3. In a flour sitter, the combination of a sifterbody provided with a handle bail formed from a strip oi"V sheet metal, a reciprocating stirre'r upon the screen bottom of said body and having an eyed end projecting into the lower portion of the space in the handle bail, a Wire having one end inserted into the eye of the stirrer and guided in a slot in the lower end of the handle bail and having a coil formed at the upper end of the handle bail and the end of said coil inserted out and in xo through the handle bail, and a handle secured upon said wire between the coil and the eye of the stirrer, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing to be my inventionI have hereunto set my hand this 24th day of April, A. D. 1893.

CARL P. EICHLER.

Witnesses WM. SEOHER, J. B. FAY.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 513,489.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 513,489, granted January 30, 1894, upon the application of Carl l?. Eichler, of Cleveland, Ohio, for an improvement in Flour-Siftersan error appears in the printed specification requiring the lfollowing correction, viz: On page 1, line 22, the Word from should read form,- ancl that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may con forni to the record ot' the case in the PatentvOftiee.

Signed, eounter'sgned, and sealed this 6th day of February, A. D. 1894.

JNO. M. REYNOLDS, Assistant Secretary of the Interior.

[SEAL] Countersigned: 

